Careers Apprentice
Careers Apprentice Apprenticeship Pay Scale 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Closing Date: Wednesday 27th August, midday.
The Careers Apprentice will provide essential administrative support within The Duston School’s Careers team, assisting with the effective delivery and development of comprehensive career guidance and education. The post holder will have opportunities for training towards a qualification in Careers Advisor enabling professional growth within the careers sector. https://findapprenticeshiptraining.apprenticeships.education.gov.uk/courses/453 Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details
Do you want to work in a hugely successful nationally hailed school? Do you want to work in a school that operates on common sense and places people at the centre of all that is does? In joining the Duston School you will be joining a school that is: • Built upon strong values and principles • Places people at the heart of all that it does and a strong positive approach to workload and wellbeing • Heavily over-subscribed • Nationally recognised, heralded and applauded • Served as a Behaviour Hub Lead School • The 27th most improved school nationally, with GCSE and A Level outcomes since 2019 have ensured the school is both locally, regionally and nationally high performing, placing the school in the top 20% of all schools nationally and A Level results in the top 5% of all schools • GCSE and A Level outcomes in 2024 were the best in the school’s history • A school of Character • An Investors in People Gold School and Wellbeing • An Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM) Flagship School and National Champion School • A Global Equality Collective School • The home of ResearchED Northampton • A PKC Curriculum Hub • An Ofsted ‘Good’ school • Has its own alternative provision; The Positive Impact Centre (PIC)
TThe school takes the workload of employees very seriously and offers the following support : • A flexible approach to PPA, which can be taken remotely off-site • Early finishes for parent consultation events and the opportunity to utilise the gained time as you wish if you are not involved in the event • Cycle to work scheme • Understanding approach to outside/personal matters • Performance management based on a coaching model • The opportunity to be part of the school’s wellbeing committee • A staff CPD library • A commitment to 4 days’ worth of INSET/CPD per academic year. • An opportunity to access a huge wider network that we are part of, including NITE, university based ITT providers and the Inspiring Leaders network • A two week October half term Candidates are welcome to visit the school prior to application
Applying: Please complete an application form (we do not accept a CV alone) along with a letter of application to the Principal. Please email the application form and letter to: jobs@thedustonschool.org If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. The Duston School is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safer recruitment practice and all appointments are subject to satisfactory DBS checks. In addition references will be requested for short listed applicants prior to interview and will form part of the interview process. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. Online searches will be carried out for all shortlisted candidates